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Census - ✔✔a count of the American population conducted every 10 years.
Civil Disobedience - ✔✔a form of unconventional participation designed ti consciously
break a law thought to be unjust
Demography - ✔✔the science of human population
Exit Polls - ✔✔a poll taken at randomly selected polling places after the citizen has
placed their vote
Gender Gap - ✔✔a consistent attitudinal pattern where women are more likely than
men to express liberal attitudes and support to democratic candidates
Melting Pot - ✔✔the mixtures of cultures, ideas, and people in the US
Minority Majority - ✔✔a reference to the impending status of White, Anglo-Saxon
Americans, currently holding majority status
Political culture - ✔✔an overall set of values widely shared in a society
Political ideology - ✔✔a coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy
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, Political participation - ✔✔the activities used by citizens to influence political outcomes
Political socialization - ✔✔the process by which citizens acquire their knowledge,
feelings, and evaluations of the political world
Protest - ✔✔a form of political participation design to change policy through
unconventional tactics
Public Opinion - ✔✔the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and issues
Random digit dialing - ✔✔phone numbers are dialed at random around the country
Random sampling - ✔✔a polling technique which is based on the principle that
everyone has an equal probability of being selected to be apart of the sample
Reapportionment - ✔✔the reallocation of 435 seats in the house of representatives based
on changes of residency and population found in the census
Sample - ✔✔a small portion of the population chosen as representative of the whole
population
Sampling Error - ✔✔the level of confidence involved in a sample result- the level is
dependent on the size of the sample
Beats - ✔✔specific locations where news is frequently found
Broadcast media - ✔✔one of the kinds of media, including tv and radio
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